Pros: I do not understand why all the bad reviews on this board. I have had an excellent experience with it. Fastest build I have ever had. Simply plugged in my AM#3 cpu, memory, vid board, and sound card, attached all of my drives and all the other standard plugs, plugged it in and hit the power switch...started right up no problems. I always like to run the latest bios, so perhaps my lack of difficulties stems from updating first thing. I have been building my own computers for 20 years now and this was undoubtedly the easiest build I have ever had. I have run both Vista Ultimate and Win 7 Ultimate with absolutely no problems. I run BOINC setiathome and other distributed progs, so my computer runs 24/7/365 without any problems.

Cons: Running a Phenom II 820 and could not unlock the chip to the full 6 MB cache...oh well if I wanted a 920 I could have bought more chip. Only other complaint has more to do with the GX. Max overclock I could get was 3.0GHz on my 820...possibly another MB would do better, but since I am not apower intensive user, I have mine backed down to a mild 5%.

Overall Review: AMD Phenom II 820 X4 AM3 2.6GHz OC'd to 2.8, Sapphire X9850 512MB, 8GB OCZ Gold DDR3 1333, 2 X WD 1 TB Green, 2 X WD 500 MB Black, BFG 650 W PS, Master Storm Scout Probably won't buy another, but that's because I would be going for max performance...NEED MORE POWER! NEED MORE CORES :)